William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Moissonneuse / The Harvester, 1875

In his own time, William-Adolphe Bouguereau [1825-1905] ⎆ was considered to be one of the greatest painters in the world by the Academic art community, and simultaneously he was reviled by the avant-garde.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Bouguereau see:

• William-Adolphe Bouguereau | Academic painter ⎆.

Virgilio Tojetti | Genre painter

Virgilio Tojetti (1851-1901), the son of the painter Domenico Tojetti (1807-1892), was born in Rome, Italy.

Tojetti was a pupil of his father and later studied in Paris with Gérôme and Bouguereau.

He was a resident of San Francisco from 1871 until about 1883 when he moved to New York City.

He became popular in the East as a painter of Genre scenes and frescoes. Tojetti died of Bright's disease in New York City on March 26, 1901.

Céline Brossard, 1960 | Abstract Mixed media painter

Born in Montreal, Celine Brossard devotes herself completely to her career in painting from her studio in the Laurentians.
Astonishingly prolific, her creative energy takes her successively from the medieval era to present days through her feminine portraits in continuous metamorphose. Whether it be women trapped, models or urban, they are witnesses of their time vacillating between seduction and their profound worries concerning their hindered freedom.

Aureliu Prodan, 1968

Aureliu Prodan was born in the family of the paintings conservator, Serafim Prodan from Chisinau, Republic of Moldova.

He received his first art lessons from his father.

Since he was a child, he loved going to the Art Museum where his father worked, to admire the exhibited paintings.

Andre Dluhos, 1940 | Abstract Palette Knife painter

Andre Dluhos was born in eastern Czechoslovakia, which is now Slovakia. Andre began to paint at eight years old.

At fourteen he won his first art competition from the region’s 400 entries.

He studied under celebrated artists and mentors at the Bratislava Art School and School of Fine Arts in Uherski Hradiste.

Favoring portraiture, figure and landscape painting, his professional career as a painter began.

Traveling and showing throughout Europe, in 1969 he decided to seek new opportunity and a new home in the United States where he now resides.

Clarence Gagnon | En plein air painter

Canadian painter Clarence Gagnon 1881-1942 is best known for his rural Quebec landscape paintings and the illustrations for Louise Hémon’s novel Maria Chapdelaine. Gagnon was also an award winning printmaker, a passionate outdoorsman, and an active promoter of Quebec handicrafts.

Clarence Gagnon was born in a small village in rural Quebec. Although he trained and maintained a studio in Paris for much of his career, he never lost his love of the Laurentians and the Charlevoix region of eastern Quebec which inspired many of his paintings. Gagnon’s mother fostered his early interest for drawing and despite his father’s wishes that he enter business, he began studying drawing and painting in 1897 at the age of sixteen under William Brymner at the Art Association of Montreal.

Carlo Dolci | Baroque Era painter

Carlo Dolci, byname Carlino (25 May 1616 - 17 January 1686) was an Italian painter of the Baroque period, active mainly in Florence, known for highly finished religious pictures, often repeated in many versions.

He was born in Florence, on his mother's side the grandson of a painter.

Although he was precocious and apprenticed at a young age to Jacopo Vignali, Dolci was not prolific.